Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick

Aid cuts could cause 22m avoidable deaths by 2030, study finds Modelling suggests 5.4m children under five among those who could die if budgets of donor countries such as UK and US continue to be slashed

Aid cuts could cause 22m avoidable deaths by 2030, study finds

Both #ICRMC25 keynotes are now on YouTube – free to watch! 🎉

🎤 @jacqpriego.bsky.social – Teaching and Learning Creative Research Methods (youtu.be/nAJC7vksV5c)

🎤 @amltaylor66.bsky.social – Postdigital Creative Research (youtu.be/KiL6c4m1fZk)

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Such a lovely surprise at #ICRMC25

Thank you for the link - I’m really keen to learn more about Victorias work

The new misogyny Culture changed in the 2000s—and, with some technological support, it has led us to some very dark places now

96% of deepfakes are non-consensual pornography. 99% feature women.

Read @aloner.bsky.social’s review of Laura Bates’s terrifying new book:

Deal to get ChatGPT Plus for whole of UK discussed by Open AI boss and minister Exclusive: Deal that could have cost £2bn was floated at meeting between technology secretary Peter Kyle and Sam Altman

UK can't afford to help old people with winter heating but wants to subsidise failing LLM industry just at the point everyone has started to realise their product is basically crap www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

More 'humanities-led' sponging of funds from UK research for Turing-validated bs. As if it's OK to waffle about systems producing "multiple valid perspectives" when actual AI can't even produce one valid perspective! Clown show. www.turing.ac.uk/news/publica..., www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Big Tech pushes for 10-year ban on US states regulating AI Call by Amazon, Google and Microsoft lobbyists for a ‘moratorium’ has split industry and the Republican party

The goal is to make these systems both unavoidable and unaccountable. They want to turn “ai is inevitable” from hype into actual policy.

Can academic freedom survive Donald Trump’s plans for thought control? The president’s aim to remove power from universities and punish so-called “woke” ideology has chilling implications for free speech globally

Read more on the bigger picture of AI in Trump's education plans here www.indexoncensorship.org/2024/12/acad...

Must get a time to go 🙏🏻

How to read and why I love reading and I love advice about how to read.

I wrote this about how to read and why.

Books remain the best technology ever invented to understand life and the world. There is no alternative.

Every book you read helps you build a richer picture of the entire world.

jmarriott.substack.com/p/how-i-read

Miss book group lots

Oh wow! Thank you SO much - for taking the time to come online - it was a bit of a blur and the hardest talk I’ve ever had to deliver

Apols this goes back to the ‘other place’ but will be on BBC sounds x.com/bbcwomanshou...

Wow you live there! And these are interesting insider reflections! @hayfestival.bsky.social player has the talk on the production available - your view on the construction and decisions about what to include and where would be a great coffee conversation!

YouTube video by UoC-Live Inaugural Professorial Lecture Series 2024 - Professor Amanda Taylor Beswick

That is very kind of you to say Penny, thank you. Interestingly, Isabelle spoke at my inaugural in Sept and made some similar observations - which I found quite overwhelming to hear back youtu.be/Ib4IIPfIlRU?... it’s been a journey and continues so with emerging technologies

Oh do let us know how you find the film Lisa… heard the production team speak at Hay festival - the thought that went into this work was really profound.

Morning Penny 🫶 have been having similar reflections lately - and missing the many great connections and conversations of that time. Nice to e-see you and thank you for reaching out. Sat morning as my desk working - after a busy research week 🙏🏻

Halfway there! 🎉

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Why Bother With Creative Research Methods? Conventional research methods are good methods. Creative research methods, in themselves, are not better than conventional research methods. Sometimes all you need is to do some interviews and, if …

ICYMI: Why Bother With Creative Research Methods? helenkara.com/2024/01/23/w...

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A Major Newspaper Publishes a Summer Reading List—but the Books Don't Exist The AI disaster is getting worse—and a new survey of 48,000 people in 47 countries makes clear that the public is fed up

AI is routinely making stupid, nonsensical mistakes that even the most incompetent employee would never make. #socialwork open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...

Creative Research Methods Conference 2025 The International Creative Research Methods Conference is an annual gathering for academics of all disciplines who are interested in using creative methods in their research.

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💥 New blog published 💥from the Cumbria Youth Co-research Collective! 👉… | Carlisle Youth Zone 💥 New blog published 💥from the Cumbria Youth Co-research Collective! 👉 https://lnkd.in/eP_A4SPh This is the second blog in our "Get Research Ready With Me" series, and shares more of our ...

New blog post from the Cumbria Youth Co-Research Collective www.linkedin.com/posts/carlis...

Do have a read, and share #youthwork #youngpeople #coresearch #research

The Technology Empowered Dementia Independence (TEDI) Network Plus is a collaboration between Northumbria, @cumbriauni.bsky.social and @newcastleuni.bsky.social, and will also involve health professionals, charities, local authorities, industry, people living with dementia, and their families.

Delighted to be one of the Profs taking this work forward.

#dementia #TEDIplus

‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur Silicon Valley’s tech moguls have increasing political ambitions, as spectacularly illustrated by Peter Thiel’s and Elon Musk’s involvements in the US 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential e...

Very happy to say that my article on Musk and Thiel's political theory of the founder (drawing on Lacan on the way) is out with @jcultecon.bsky.social! Strange to see it out there with all what happened in the last year, but it will hopefully make it a good read

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Read and weep.

Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands (Gift Article) Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.

Bravo, Harvard. About freaking time. The emperor has no clothes on!
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...